[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.